employability by design q-step at manchester. manchester q-step integrated programme of curriculum...
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Employability by designQ-Step at Manchester
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Manchester Q-Step
• Integrated programme of curriculum developments and work placement opportunities to engage and enthuse students in learning quantitative methods
• Sociology, Politics, Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Criminology and Linguistics
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The paradox of Quantitative skills
• Employers love them
• Students (think they) hate them
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What’s wrong
• Can’t do maths?
• Lack of integration– frequently parcelled off to ‘quantitative methods’ or ‘research skills’ module
• Perceived as boring: disconnected from learning the substantive discipline
• Perceived as hard: Stats anxiety • Perceived as alien to real life: lack of ‘real data’ ‘real
applications’ • Perceived as something to be got through and ‘passed’ -
very few go on to pick ‘quants’ options
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Re-wiring quantitative skills
Methods
Work Placements Substantive
Curriculum Employers
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Making Students part of the DatasetViews of cultural impact of immigration over last 10 years
2011 British Social Attitudes
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Summer work placements
• Work with organisations – internal and external
• Define a ‘project’• Students apply• Work with careers service
– Interview– Appoint– Place
• Manage expectations• Support everyone• Review
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Q-Step summer placements 2014
• 20 projects, 10 organisations; 19 students • Sociology, politics, criminology, linguistics• 6-12 weeks long; generous stipends• Quantitative skills• Real world data, real world research and applications• Not credit bearing• Students produce (at least) a poster as an output – some will
have academic papers, briefing papers, publications, blog posts
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Who we are placing students with
• Think tanks
• Polling organisations
• Local government
• Universities
• Data consultancies and services
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Who we will also place students with
• International statistical organisations
• Larger companies
• Third sector
• Cooperatives